Morphological parsing of Swahili using crowdsourced lexical resources

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3333-3339

  Littell, Patrick ^a   Price, Kaitlyn ^b   Levin, Lori ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Morphological parsing; Swahili

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING;

LEXICAL COVERAGE; LEXICAL RESOURCES; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER; MORPHOLOGICAL PARSING; MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES; SWAHILI;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84958583445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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